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British Town Riots Reflect Europe-Wide Problem
By David Bacon/PNS
The British midlands are engulfed by race riots, pitting the children of whites who lost jobs in the country’s devastating de-industrialization against the sons and daughters of those who came to fill service jobs in the decades after World War II.
While the circumstances are not the same, the riots recall the attacks on immigrant hostels in Germany, or those on North Africans in France.
With 130 million people worldwide living outside their country of birth, migration has become a permanent phenomenon. It is provoking questions in the industrialized west about who is responsible for economic devastation and the lack of good jobs, and whether all residents — legal and illegal, immigrant and native — have equal rights and status.
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